Tor uses swap?

[Michael Gomboc]

A new installation of Ubuntu with encrypted LVM is more than easy!
Check the link for help (It's Ubuntu 7.10, but there is no big difference)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Encrypted-Ubuntu-7-10-68383.shtml

<http://news.softpedia.com/news/Encrypted-Ubuntu-7-10-68383.shtml>Of curse
you can encrypt only your swap, but why not encrypt the hole system?

2011/1/4 <andre76 at fastmail.fm>

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>  andre76 at fastmail.fm
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> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:16 -0500, "Roger Dingledine" <arma at mit.edu>
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> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:14:09PM +0100, andre76 at fastmail.fm wrote:
> > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and Tor browser bundle with scripts forbidden.
> > >
> > > Does any of my web search results or web pages (or anything else during
> > > the web session) I look at get sent to or put on the SWAP partition of
> > > my machine?
> >
> > Could be. The Tor Browser Bundle for Linux is just an ordinary
> > application. It doesn't control your swap either way. You don't start
> > it as root, so it can't.
> >
> > I'd suggest that you should be using encrypted swap by default. Everybody
> > should.
> >
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> I sure would LOVE to know an easy way to encrypt my swap.  My plan had
> been to do a fresh reinstallation of Ubuntu 10.04 on my dual-boot
> machine but I got to the "encrypt the disk" portion of the installation
> using Alternate CD and quit.  There were too many questions or settings
> that I had no idea what to enter.
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> > --Roger
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